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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MarcoPOLO to c/[email protected]

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Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

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[–] ScreaminOctopus 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why? What's wrong with safe, managed and fast languages?

[–] ScreaminOctopus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing really, the JVM has a pretty troubled history that would really make me hesitate to call it "safe". It was originally built before anyone gave much thought to security and that fact plauges it to the present day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

and how much of this troubled history is linked to Java Applets/native browsers extensions, and how much of it is relevant today?

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